Occupation: Science Writer Birth: July 7, 1907 Death: May 8, 1988
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man….
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law..
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not s….
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these a….
In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem..
Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing..
A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserve….
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?.
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a ….
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man..
If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?.
Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real thin….
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?.
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men..
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - S….
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself..
God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology..
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we….
Stupidity is the only natural capital offense..
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes..
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in an….